Paper presented at the 52nd CFCS Annual Meeting, Guadeloupe, July 10-16, 2016
STUDY OF GUADELOUPEAN POTENTIAL IN BIORESOURCES PRODUCTS AND MATERIALS FOR BUILDINGS Bio economy and valuation of agricultural and forestry resources Régis Le Corre1, Bertrand Viret2 and Marc Claudin3 1
Karibati, 2Caraïbe Environnement, 3DEAL Guadeloupe
Keywords :Local and renewable resources – new agricultural and forestery valuations - bioresources products and materials-hygrothermal properties – carbon sequestration Abstract Specific Guadeloupean needs in bioresources products and materials for buildings as well as the insular socio-economical context concerning work and raw material costs plead for a deeper reflexion on the use of local ressources more adapted to guadeloupean concerns Working on this hypothesis is to put into perspective the local needs of the building world (asking for new construction and renovations) and the potential for mobilization of local resources (including recycled) to produce local bio-based building materials (material deposits offers materials, local insulation... ) for the building with properties fitting the local context . Practically, the study conducted is to identify, in a way, the “ unsustainable “ poles in the building process with regard to specific needs Guadeloupe (earthquake / thermal / para cyclonic / controlled costs) and to make up for them. The need to identify the most relevant potential in terms of available resources on the island, potential products and building materials appropriate to be developed, indicating the necessary conditions so required. Materials and methods The field of study is limited to bio-based building materials. To be knonw: • The basic raw materials of vegetable origin ; • The materials based on raw materials from waste / recycled themselves biobased. Methods: • Determining the potential and the minimum conditions for the creation of one or several Guadeloupe sectors of bio-based building materials from agriculture, forestry and recycled materials to specifically meet the needs of new buildings and renovate premises. And ultimately consider the development of a «Caribbean market «; • To study the valuation of coproducts “agricultural” (banana stem, bagasse , bamboo, coconut , Sargassum etc.) , materials coming from recycling , as well as developing appropriate new crops (hemp, miscanthus ... ) . • This work should ultimately allow to specify what specific type of product could be produced and under what conditions. Main results: Ongoing study. Inventory done. Potential sectors identified.
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